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11 Cards in this Set
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Annul
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Cancel or invalidate
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Canonize
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Recognize one as a saint
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Heliocentric
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Based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe
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Humanities
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Study of subjects taught in ancient Greece and Rome, such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history
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Hypothesis
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Possible explanation
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Indulgence
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In the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person’s lifetime
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Patron
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Person who provides financial support to the arts
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Recant
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Give up one’s views or beliefs
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Reformation
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A 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches
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Renaissance
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The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome |
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Scientific Method
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Painstaking method use to confirm findings and to prove or disapprove a hypothesis |
